#1: Gay is the new Black.

#2: Lincoln Chaffee must is going to hate sharing a Majority Caucus with David Vitter, Tom Coburn, and Jim DeMint. He voted for George Bush’s father, incidentally.

#3: The Democrats’ electoral stranglehold of the Northeast and West Coast seems to have hardened. The Republicans’ stranglehold of the South and vast West seems to have hardened. The Democrats’ hopes of a Return in the South ride through Virginia. The Democrats have stemmed the tide in Colorado.

#4: The “Flyover Country” Problem is confounded by the inequal balance of the Senate. Every state gets two Senators. If not for that, looking toward the Southeast States and the upper MidWest states would look desirable.

#5: History may well regard Howard Dean as the Democrats’ Goldwater. Take it from there. His influence thus far: early backing for an obscure state Senator from Illinois running an insurgent primary campaign against the picks of the Democratic Party machine… who would then go on to a 20 point poll lead over the Republican candidate who would bow out due to a sex scandal, and who would proceed to defeat his replacement by 40 or so points.

#6: The Oklahoma Senate race was a race between a Republican and a member of the Constitution Party.

#7: I don’t know if there are too many obscure Southern Democratic governors for the Democratic Party to choose from…

#8: On the Senate level, the “Conservative” or “Moderate” (ie: Southern) Wing of the Democratic Party is largely decimated. The ironic thing being if the Democrats had done well, it would look a bit like “Zell Miller’s Revenge”. Alas, the new Republican Senator from Georgia is a peg or two to the left of Zell Miller, so it’s probably moot to begin with. On the other hand, this is sort of good: Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose. (Note the sorry Tom Daschle, stuck in dualing roles, is gone… meaning the caucus is no longer compromised by constituency interests of supporting South Dakota.)

#9: I don’t know where I’m taking this blog now. Suggestions? Do I continue something akin to the “Good Fight”?

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